This is a small applet designed for the panel to have quick access to the most used folders.

Hints for the Drag and Drop support:
you can open the dialog by hovering for 1 sec over the applet. The same way you can navigate through the directory tree, simply stay 1 sec over a folder/the backarrow to get into the folder...
If you drop a file/folder it will land in the folder you are in, no matter if you dropped it on a foldericon or not...

If you see any bugs or think something is a design failure please inform me about it.

I have to thank Luciano Leveroni and Marcel Nowaczyk for their help, suggestions and testing, without them you would have a lot of bugs in the released version...

Changelog:

0.7.1:
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-fixed a bug which lets quickaccess/plasma crash if you didn't open the popupdialog before a dndevent

0.7:
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-sorting
-improved selection(by rubberband or shift/ctrl)
-fixed a bug with invalid urls and changed default path to "~"
-applet should now save the size if placed on the desktop
-improved scrollinganimation
-the popupdialog gets closed when an item in the contexmenu is triggered

0.6.1:
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-fixed a bug with doubleclick settings(thanks for the report painkiller101)
-fixed a bug where the icon in the panel remains highlighted
-the listview now has by default keyboard focus
-changed the width of the text in iconmode

0.6:
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-changed the flipscrollview to an itemview that supports a listmode and an iconmode(idea by Marcel Nowaczyk aka painkiller101)
-option to disable navigation(clicking on a folder opens dolphin/konqueror)
-some visual changes(e.g. better readable text with transparent themes)

0.5.2:
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-fixed a bug where the previewimagesize was not updated when the iconsize of the listview changed
-tooltips are disabled by default
-little changes in the itemheight

0.5.1:
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-fixed a bug where the text in the listview was drawn under the triangle( thanks to painkiller101 for the hint)

0.5:
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-ToolTip support
-extracted the resizefunctionality into a base class
-option to adjust which previewplugins should be used(by default only the imageplugin)
-some visual "improvements"

Advanced folderview

Hello mherbert,

i really like your plasmoid, have you thought about creating an ADVANCED FOLDERVIEW widget ? Would be nice to have preview thumbnails and navigaton in folderview. Should be easy for you or other C developers to modify your code to get this working.

I count on you !

Keep up the good work !

Re: Advanced folderview

Thanks for your comment.
It should be easy to implement your wish, but I don't use any icons on the desktop, that's why I am not that motivated to implement it myself ;)
But if anybody else wants to implement it, (s)he could drop me a message to discuss it.

Re: File manager preference

It uses the kde-settings to determine what app is used to open folders. To change that behavior, you have to change your settings to dolphin.
And no it is not possible to set it depending on the folder...

Quick Access "sort"

Hi Mark,
Thanks for this excellent Plasmoid. I particularly like the "View mode" option as always a folder or file name is longer than its Icon and is obsurerd. I've pointed your plasmoid at /Desktop to create my own Apps menu.
Sometimes I forget and move/download a file onto Desktop(old MS user). Is there any merit in having an option to sort by "Type" Apps,Folders then anything else.

Re: Associating mimetypes

I thought that second suggestion wouldn't be possible to do but seems I was wrong.

I have added a line to plasma-applet-quickaccess.desktop:

X-Plasma-DropMimeTypes=inode/directory

So when a drop a folder into the background a menu appears offering me the possibility to create a QuickAccess plasmoid. For getting it to work maybe you must implement any interface but shouldn't be hard to do (see FolderView).

Hope in the future we can drop applets to the panel but this is an step.

Re: Re: Associating mimetypes

Hey Ramon Antonio,
I have read that blog too and the first thing I have done was firing up kate and implement that feature (2) ;)
But I am not sure if I should associate it with images, it would be a bit confusing, because quickaccess has nothing to do with images...

Re: Re: Re: Associating mimetypes

I misunderstood blog post. I thought it was about dropping things into existing applets that is not a killer feature but maybe useful. I creating a new applet when dropping into dashboard just as a related topic.

Thanks, I have updated the download section.

Mark

Notification

Hi, your plasmoid is great. I'm using it as a quick access for my downloads. There is one more missing feature for me-notification. It will be great if the plasmoid notifi me that there is/are new file/files. F.e when my download finish it will blink with another icon, or change the icon with a fade effect. Something like that. Please make it ;)

How do you like Plasma 5? The best KDE Desktop ever. Definitely a nice improvement. Not decided yet. Haven't tried it yet. I do not like some of the changes. KDE is taking the wrong way. I am still sticking with KDE 3.5. I have no opinion, but wanted to vote anyway.

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